felt_tips said
The big issue to make it relevant for remote working is for the upload speed to be equally fast. I sometimes need to shift a couple of gigs around for a job. (up and download). Some jobs could do with moving a terabyte of data over the web, but that’s just in fantasy land at the moment.

Although If the upload were 25% of the download, you could shift 1TB in about 8-10 hours.

What’s the upload speed likely to be for Google fiber?

I just fear that as speeds for data transfer become faster, people will become lazy and stop compressing their files or start making file sizes bigger, thus rendering the new speed pointless…

Depends what you’re doing. I work in film. Each frame these days is a 16bit 4096×2304 image and on a particular job there may be 3 hours of rushes. Of course you use compression, and of course the data size is still vast.

That’s actually what I’d like to see – transfer rates where you can just forget about compression and push stuff around as though it were a hard drive. Recompressing 3 hours of 4k material takes a looooong time.

I do remember my 28.8k dial-up though. I’ll never be a completely lazy *.

Don’t forget that for those types of speeds, you need an ethernet cable. Wi-Fi will cap you at ~160Mbps and will make it feel like the same ol’ internet you can find anywhere, even through popular ISPs like Verizon & Comcast.

PixelBin said
Don’t forget that for those types of speeds, you need an ethernet cable. Wi-Fi will cap you at ~160Mbps and will make it feel like the same ol’ internet you can find anywhere, even through popular ISPs like Verizon & Comcast.

You have the wrong Wi-Fi, 802.11n does ~300Mbps and the new Wi-Fi 802.11ac can be around 1Gbps+

PixelBin said
Don’t forget that for those types of speeds, you need an ethernet cable. Wi-Fi will cap you at ~160Mbps and will make it feel like the same ol’ internet you can find anywhere, even through popular ISPs like Verizon & Comcast.

You have the wrong Wi-Fi, 802.11n does ~300Mbps and the new Wi-Fi 802.11ac can be around 1Gbps+

That’s what the standard is meant to support but most routers don’t go nearly that high (unless something changed recently—wasn’t like this when I purchased my router). And ac isn’t available to consumers yet so yet again, even if you are in the Kansas City area, you still won’t be seeing the 1Gbps speeds unless you’re hard wired.

I live in the south east of the UK and the fastest download speed I’ve managed to get in my home is just under 2.5mb/s with an upload of .5mb/s! (Leave projects uploading over night) Google fiber get yo ass to sunny Bexhill-On-Sea!